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> Rust has been self-hosted for almost as long as it's existed. The boostrapping OCaml compiler was left behind back in 2011. Not on x86 which is what this who
by 2trill2spill 9y ago
> Rust has been self-hosted for almost as long as it's existed. The boostrapping OCaml compiler was left behind back in 2011.
Not on x86 which is what this whole conversation is talking about. So if OpenBSD used rust in base they would have to drop support for x86.
- sverige 9y agoWe haven't even gotten to alpha, hppa, loongson, luna88k, macppc, octeon, sgi, or that backwards beauty of big-endianness, sparc64. But hey, it compiles on amd64! That should be good enough, right?